A few Saturdays ago, several families worked at Sunset Middle School to get the football field ready for the upcoming season. The coach tasked my family with cleaning up around the scoreboard. He also handed me a brand new American flag. When I saw how worn and faded the current flag had become, I knew that one had to be burned.

It’s a little ironic that burning the flag is both the preferred method of dignified retirement and the subject of a White House executive order seeking to criminalize desecration of the flag in protest.

After my wife and I lowered that beautiful, worn-out American flag, we folded it properly, its creases sharp and clean. We placed it in a clean box, and it now sits at the end of our dining room table until we find the time to respectfully retire it. Opinion

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